Mourne for the abufe of our liberty. 157 . norance, for the prophaneffe of the people of the Land, even now when there is inch a liberty of the (Jofpel (for never was the like) yet they turne away from ir,and judge themfelves un- vorchyof etern l life,& even do doff ight to the fpirit ofgrace, in they Po: z.v: Mark how Paul was'attcted for his Country mens lake, that he could even have witht himfelfe to have been cut off from Jetus Chrift, he was fo troubled for their ig -. norance and tejeetion of Chriít, one would think that feeing Cod bath fo wonderfully wrought to bring us to the enjoyment of the`liberty of the `:ott,el : that this fbould be a time that generally peór-le thould come in to embrace it. O.but we find it otherwife, there is a vild fpirit rifen among men againit the wayes ofGodlineife. And then thi.dly,. Mourne we this there are fuch diviner now among us; The Devil fees th,'t fie can't get many to that prophaneiie and Popery as he was won: to die, and therefore now he comes to f,oyle Religion and that by divifions,yea and .among the Godly,and there the policy of Sa_an is as much feen as in any thing yea and the rather let us rake this to heart, when we confider that alnroft every time men meddle with divifions, and cry out againtt them, they make them wider, and many they are affected indeed becaufe of the divifions that are in the Land ; I but it is becaufe every one will not be of their mind, and therefore they mourne, but it's a' felfith mour- ning for the molt part when men cry out of divifions, becaufe they may carry away all the efteem, and honour and dignities, and preferments without any controule whatfoever, therefore they cry out of divifions, but there is not a 1piritual mourning of heart -for the fins of the divifions that are among us. And: then Fifthly, O mourne we for the abufe of our liberty, the wantonnefs that is among us now;The Lord grants unce us times of liberty, more thenever our fore fathers had or could have thought to have had, and,now, O Lord what an abufe of this liberty is there ! How do men run out to all kind of licen- tiot >fneffe "-becaufe of liberty; out of that pleading for that true liberty of confcience that Chrift would have us to tender onè another in; they run out to all kind of licentioufneffe, Blafphe- my, and wickedneffe whatfoever. Sixthly,
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